The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) will install modern camera systems at 12 hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, as part of an agreement signed with the Ministry of Health on Oct 23 to help improve the quality of admin reform and healthcare services....
A company in the southern province of Tay Ninh was fined VND350 million ($16,600) after its broken wastewater reservoir polluted surrounding homes and farms. Heavy rains ruptured a waste water reservoir at Do Phu Manufacturing, Trading and Import-...
The Prime Minister has approved an advance of VND239 billion ($11.1 million) from the State budget for the implementation of projects to evacuate residents from areas vulnerable to natural disasters in 2014. According to the Ministry of Planning and...
Over 90% of the pine forest along the Ho Chi Minh Highway that runs through Krong Buk District in Dak Lak Province has been destroyed by residents as well as the local administration. A Tin Tuc (News) report said last week that the forest has been...
A medical waste incinerator in Haiphong built by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and the Japan International Co-operation Agency in Vietnam (JICA) completed its trial phase. Constructed in January, the $600,000 incinerator...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training said in a draft decree on educational service fees that it would raise tuition fees at public tertiary schools from 2015. This is in a three-year plan on raising school fees until 2018. Tuition fees make...
It often seems that dangerous jobs are aimed at men, but eight Vietnamese women in the central province of Quang Tri dare to perform some of the world’s most risky work: clearing unexploded ordnance or UXOs. Some women are believed to be more...
Vietnam needs up to $250 million to clean up dioxin at Bien Hoa military airport, a base of the U.S. army during the Vietnam War, a report showed at a conference supported by the UN Development Program (UNDP). The dioxin-contaminated soil may hit...
At the fifth International Seminar on Regional Network on Poverty Eradication (RENPER 5), which opened yesterday in HCM City, foreign and Vietnamese academics are presenting proposals that could help Vietnam and other countries reduce its poverty...
Preferential policies to develop tourism in ethnic minority regions will come into effect from November 25, according to a circular newly issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The regions will be supported in tourism communication...
